Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-25

Tor II. lie reaO from report from Inc
English foreign office to The Canadian
government on the subject
Senator Edmunds suggested that Cap
tain Quigley was still in the government
service.
Senator Fry quoted from the recent
statute passed by the Dominion govern
.nent in still further hostility to American
fishermen, and said that that legisia-
ton had been approved by
the British government. The hoPe,
therefore, that Great Britain would
dc what was far Snd just was destroyed,
and it might have been known that that
would have been the result. There was
not lire, he said, in the history OF Great
Britain for the last 800 years that gave the
slightest reason to believe that in pursuit
of gain, in pursuit of trade she would
ever permit the rights CT another to stand
in the way Of her progress. Every one of
the cases he bad referred to was in viola
ton of the spirit, and four out Of
tive of them were in viola
ton of the letter of the treaty
ofISlS. Every one of them was in viola
ton of the rules of good neighborhOod, of
the civilization OF the day, and of the
understanding OF all civilized nations as
to the rights OF foreign ships in their
ports. But, the American people knew
that they were G0,OOO,O 600, knew they were
the richest nation OF the earth, knew their
power and they would not humiliSte
themselves and do violence to their con-
science or pride by resorting TO little mis-
cradle tricks and uutrsges by way Of re-
taliation. What the committee on foreign
relations sought was that the President
of the United States should be empowered
TO close American ports against any fish
ermen or all fishermen, against any mer-
chant vessel or all merchant vessels. The
Queen of Great Britain has to-daye the
power 10 close her ports against any of
the products of the whole world if she
saw fit, and he saw no objection to en-
trusting that power to the President.
lie believed the President would only
have to take advantage of this bill and
issue his proclamation that no fish, fresh
or salt or gained or smoked, the pro-
duct of Canadian fisheries, shall be
landed in any part Of the United States,
and not smother outrage by this British
colony would be heard Of; but if these
outrages were TO continue and we're to re-
suit in reciprocity treaty, as mad been
the case before, that treaty would again
be aorOgated ard the Outrages
would be again renewed. The bill
on the same subject in the House
went further than this bill. 1t gave the
President authority 10 proclaim absolute
non-interCourse. He did not believe that
the House committee on foreign affairs
wouli have reported that bill without
knowing whether or not the administration
was in sympathy with it. The Senator
from Maryland Senator GOrmaD) had in
troduCed a resolution on the same sub
iect some time ago, and that Senator was
known to be friend Of the administra-
ton. The Secretary Of the Treasury, one
of the men the administration had sent
to communicate to the Senate, reviewing
the conduct of Canada in the matter, had
declared i: to be "simpy brutal" The
Secretary of ate had used diplomatic
language on the subj ct, but even he had
said over and over again that the acts OF
the Canadian authorities were Outrages,
A and that the United States would demand
9eestitutior.
Senator Gray quoted the Secretary of
State as chgraCteriZing, in a note to Min
ister West, the acts of the Canadian au-
tGorlties as inhospitable and inhuman.
Senator Frye adj ed that the American
minister to England, Mr.. Phelps, had
made an uneXceptiOnGble clear, com
plete, and to him entirely satisfactory
statement of the whole case. This law,
he said, had power in It. He believed that
the President ha1 at heart the honor and
dignity of the great republic over which
ne presided. He believed that the Presi-
dent was in favor Of protecting the rights
OF every American citizen. He believed
he was an honest man and If the law
were passed end the power which it
would put into his hands would be used
for the protection Of American rights.
Senator Ingalls, sad one object which
he had in view hid been accomplished.
He had desired TO ascertain, if possible,
the purpose and intention Of the com
mittee on foreign relations in the pro-
posed legislation. He hal been in doubt
whether 1t was Intended 20 remit the sub
iect to the Dominion diplomacy or
whether it WAS intended as declara-
ton to Great Britain that its
course, if persisted in, would result
in war. He underst 'Od from the
statement of tine SenauOr f q Maine
Mr.. Frye speaking for the Committee as
he MIR. Ingalls, supposed he did, that if
this bill became law It was a deClara
ton TO Great Britain that she would con-
tinue these practices at her peril, and if
they were persisted IN they mast be en-
forced by war The statement constitu ted
Il casus belli under the law of ma
tons. A continuance of amicable
interests under such circumstances
would be impossible. He had, therefore,
desired to know whether the purpose OF
the bin was TO invite diplomacy or to an
ncunce To Great Britain that such pro-
ceedings mad been carried to the extremity
and limit Of a p"aceable solution. The
voice WAS the voice If the Canadians, but
the hand WAS the band Of Great Britain.
Senator Edmuud5 asked Senator In
gals whether he meant that any act
which the people OF the United States
might consider the violation Of d treaty
was necessarily d casus belli.
Senator Ingalls-"1 mean to say that
the declared and avowed and continued
violation of treaty obligations or of inter
national law is cssus belll. England
has always been ruff an, coward and
bully among the nations Of the earth,
insolvent to the weak, tyrsnnical
to the feeble and cringing and
obsequious to the strong. Her history
for Centuries has been a record of crime
against the human race IN Ireland, in
Scotland, in Wales; against the Roman
Catholics, against the Beers of South
Africa, against the Hindoos and Cainese.
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